valiant - Story 161564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music pulsed in Leo’s ears, a rhythm of action. The choice loomed. Liam’s party, or, his own, which was on the same day. He felt the nervous flutter of excitement, the way his stomach tightened, but he stood firm. He had a plan.

Leo scanned the dance floor, the flashing lights reflecting in his determined eyes. He wouldn’t let fear dictate his actions. He'd work, and then he would get to his party, whatever the cost. He found Liam, gave him a small smile. He was ready to go.

Emotion: valiant

Cluster: Defiance / Spite

PC1 (Valence): 2.82 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 2.02

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion valiant. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 valiant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the valiant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the valiant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.887
`willing`	0.543
`la`	0.452
`/`	0.444
`👊`	0.439

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.661
`마다`	-0.518
`😞`	-0.488
`😔`	-0.461
`😩`	-0.444